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President of Poland Andrzej Duda appealed once more for a greater NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe during an address on Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, Radio Poland reported.His appeal, on the first day of a three-day visit, comes in the lead-up to a NATO summit in Warsaw this July, according to Radio Poland.”For...

Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained in Russia the Ukrainian lieutenant colonel from the main counterintelligence department of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine, according to the FSB public relations center, RBC reports.It is noted that the SBU lieutenant colonel Yuriy Ivanchenko was detained on March 26. According to...

The unidentified perpetrators attempted to penetrate a military base of the Ukrainian Air Force in Chernihiv region, according to the Defense Ministry`s press service.It is reported that a base commander noticed violators trying to come around the guard post and approach the technical area.The Ukrainian troops are reported to have detained two...

With a week left to the April 6 referendum in the Netherlands on approval of Ukraine`s Association Agreement with the European Union, the ”yes” and ”no” camps are running neck-and-neck, according to the Kyiv Post.A recent poll commissioned by the Dutch Foreign Ministry found public opinion evenly split, Dutch newspaper AlgemeenDagblad reported on...

The Verkhovna Rada committee on foreign affairs Wednesday, March 30, has passed a draft resolution on severing diplomatic relations with Russia, MP Volodymyr Parasyuk said on Wednesday, according to TSN.ua.Parasyuk says the resolution will be submitted for consideration after the decision of the conciliatory council of the parliament. According...

The People`s Bank of China (PBOC) on Thursday set its official midpoint rate at 6.4612 per dollar prior to the market opening, its strongest fixing in 2016, after the greenback tumbled after the U.S. Federal Reserve`s dovish comments on the U.S. economy and prospects of interest rate hikes, according to Reuters.The Chinese central bank`s official...

Before the fourth Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama has called on the Russian Federation to comply fully with its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), according to The Washington Post.”Our progress notwithstanding, I`m the first to acknowledge that we still have...

Most of the Dutch will vote in favor of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said in an interview with Nieuwsuur.”I have great confidence in the wisdom of the Netherlands. I think a majority will vote yes on April 6, in the interests of … trade and stability in Europe,” said...

A photo montage that showed up on Wednesday on a Twitter channel of militant Islamists ISIS appeared to threaten Cologne-Bonn airport, German newspaper General-Anzeiger (GA) reported.In the background is a picture of the airport, with fighters and the sentence: ”What your brothers in Belgium managed to do, you can do as well,” GA wrote.Asked if...

Chinese cable laying ship, Jiangong 1, which has been laying a so-called ”energy bridge” from Russia`s Kuban to the occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, has broken down, according to Kerch.FM.”One of the auxiliary engines of the vessel is down. Now the cable laying vessel needs to be towed,” a report reads.It is noted the ship cannot be sent...